The Boston Celtics waived guard Phil Pressey on Wednesday.

Pressey averaged 3.5 points, 1.6 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 12.0 minutes last season, with a season-high of 11 points against Miami on March 25.

He also played in 75 games for the Celtics in 2013-14 after he signed with the team as an undrafted free agent.

COLLEGES: The University of Wyoming extended Coach Larry Shyatt’s contract through April 2020.

SOCCER

MLS: Versatile Mexican scorer Giovani dos Santos signed a designated player contract with the defending Major League Soccer champions, the LA Galaxy.

Dos Santos spent the last two seasons with Spain’s Villareal.

NASL: The Tampa Bay Rowdies of the second-tier North American Soccer League agreed to a contract with one-time phenom Freddy Adu.

Adu, 26, has struggled to live up to expectations since making his debut at age 14 for MLS’s D.C. United in 2004.

GOLD CUP: Cuban national midfielders Dario Suarez and Aricheel Hernandez were suspected of defecting prior to Wednesday’s match vs. Guatemala.

FIFA: Daniel Flynn, the U.S. Soccer Federation’s secretary general, said he had suspicions about the sport’s international governing body, but a lack of evidence kept him from acting before it was ensnared in a U.S. corruption investigation.

“There was nothing in the way of any facts that I could take to anyone,” Flynn told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in Washington. “It was a discomfort level.”

HOCKEY

NHL: The Coyotes signed defenseman Philip Samuelsson and forward Brendan Shinnimin to one-year, two-way contracts.

Both players have played with the Portland Pirates, the Coyotes’ former AHL affiliate.

• Free-agent defenseman Johnny Oduya signed a two-year, $7.5 million contract with the Dallas Stars after three seasons-plus with the Chicago Blackhawks.

• Center Ryan Kesler agreed to a six-year, $41.25 million contract extension with the Anaheim Ducks.

• The Los Angeles Kings re-signed center/wing Andy Andreoff to a two-year deal worth $1,175,000.

• Defenseman Justin Schultz and the Edmonton Oilers agreed to $3.9 million, one-year contract.

HORSE RACING

RECOVERING: California Chrome, the 2014 Kentucky Derby, will recover from a bone bruise at a Kentucky farm for three months.

CYCLING

TOUR DE FRANCE: Rafal Majka led a solo breakaway to win the 11th stage under a scorching sun, leaving behind a small group of rivals on the hardest climb of Day 2 in the Pyrenees mountains as Chris Froome easily retained the yellow jersey.

TENNIS

HALL OF FAME TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS: Americans Jack Sock and Rajeev Ram advanced to the quarterfinals in Newport, Rhode Island.

Fourth-seeded Sock rallied past Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4. Ram defeated Yuichi Sugita of Japan 6-4, 6-3, a day after upsetting top-seeded John Isner.

BUCHAREST OPEN: Top-seeded Sara Errani overcame a slow start to beat Shahar Peer 7-6 (5), 6-2 and reach the quarterfinals.

SWEDISH OPEN: Four days after winning her sixth Wimbledon, top-ranked Serena Williams sailed through her opening match with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Belgium’s Ysaline Bonaventure.

BASEBALL

NECBL: The Mystic Schooners (19-12) scored five runs in the fifth inning to pull away from the Sanford Mainers (15-13) 11-2 at Goodall Park in Sanford.

NCBL: The Old Orchard Beach Surge hammered 14 hits with each starter recording at least one, as they rolled by the Newburgh Newts (14-11) 10-3 at home.

Chris Ray and Richard Colla each had RBI singles in the sixth as the Surge scored a pair of runs to break a 3-3 tie.

Skip Flanagan and Tyler Krobetzky hit back-to-back RBI doubles to stretch the lead to 7-3 in the seventh inning.

The Surge (10-17) finished scoring in the eighth on Carlos Valdez’s two-run homer.

– From staff and news services